Photo by Lisa Roper

Photo by Lisa Roper

Bessera elegans, a bulb from Mexico flowers in The Gravel Garden.

Photo by Lisa Roper

Magnolia grandiflora 'Edith Bogue' is trained on the wall at the Ruin creating a bold contrast with the finer textures of Equisetum hyemale var. robustum growing in the bed beneath and Senecio radicans trailing from a planting pocket in the wall.